Instruction
Good job! The min() and max() functions also work with dictionaries but only examine keys by default. For instance, if we changed our list with requests processed on a given day into a dictionary, we could write the following code:
requests_processed = {1:12, 2:18, 3:15, 4:23, 5:24, 6:8, 7:0, 8:18, 9:14, 10:13}
max(requests_processed)
The code above will return 10 because that's the largest key in the dictionary. If you want to find the largest value, use the following code instead:
max(requests_processed.values())
The code above will return 24.
Exercise
A company decided to change its product names as part of a rebranding strategy.
The template code contains a dictionary that maps old names to new names. Create a function named very_first_name(dictionary) that, for input similar to the one from the template, returns the very first name (alphabetically) among all the old and new names treated as a single group of names.
Stuck? Here's a hint!
First, find the min() value among the keys and the min() value among the values. Then, print the min() of those two.
